Irish History for Dummies

8 best books like Irish History for Dummies (Mike Cronin): The Book of Delights, The Bird King, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland, The King of Bones and Ashes, Islands in the Net, The Afterlife and Other Stories, Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

The Book of Delights

Author	Ross Gay
ISBN	1616207922

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...

The Bird King

Author

G. Willow Wilson

New from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow Wilson

Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian peninsula, The Bird King is the story of Fatima, the only remaining Circassian concubine to the sultan, and her dearest friend...

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

Author	Pete McCarthy
ISBN	0312311338

The #1 Irish Bestseller

Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling...

The King of Bones and Ashes

Author

J.D. Horn

From the bestselling author of the Witching Savannah series comes the first book in a fascinating trilogy following the quest of a young witch to uncover her family’s terrifying secret history…

Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who’ve relied on it for countless...

Islands in the Net

Author	Bruce Sterling
ISBN	0441374239

Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit.
In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is...

The Afterlife and Other Stories

Author	John Updike
ISBN	0449912019

To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.” All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life...

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

Author	John Updike
ISBN	0307957152

A collection both intimate and generous of the eloquent, insightful, beautifully written prose works that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009.

This collection of miscellaneous prose opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his...

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

Author	Ingrid Fetell Lee
ISBN	0316399264

Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people--regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity--are mesmerized by baby animals and can't help but smile when they see a burst of...